If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.